GenericsMotors

Can you elaborate with some examples?

Fair enough, though Go would probably be dead if it suffered the same churn as Google's frontend projects.

My main problem with using anything from Google is that I work on projects that may end up in production for years, and Google's history of playing fast and loose with (or shit-canning) the frameworks it develops doesn't inspire much confidence.

Fortunately for me UI dev isn't my primary role.

They're going to end up getting a lot of snail mail that they can't ignore.

What other interpretation can "funding secured" possibly have other than "we've got to funding to go ahead with this"?

Just don't accuse upstanding citizens of being pedos, or try to manipulate your company's stock price with false promises of buying it back at a premium and you'll be fine.

If only a neutral third party, such as a respected auditing firm, could confirm they hold the cash in reserve.

I hope you stick to webdevelopment and never touch anything remotely related to medical devices, or control systems.

Don't need quantum fintech for that, "blockchain fintech" is already rubbish.

None of those are particularly expedient, but you have a point.

Crypto, the not-so-fast bullion-based international payment system. Perhaps the perpetrators might have better luck sending each other USD notes by mail instead.

Probably because crypto is only useful insofar as it can be converted into useful fiat currencies, which means that it can be tracked.

Go already has generics for its built-in collection types, yet you can see nothing but downsides for user-defined generic types?

Incredible mental gymnastics you've got there.

And when you've got this network of RPis running, the Myanmar government simply says "Nope we don't recognize those individuals as citizens. But thanks for compiling a convenient persona non grata list for us!"

> Valve needs to partner with Google and launch a Chromebook/Steam Machine hybrid.

"Valve needs to"? Or you'd like Valve to?

> It's in the interest of both companies to kill Windows. [...] It would be a success and could seriously hurt Microsoft.

Ah, there it is, your real motive. Valve will do whatever will make them money and keep their users mostly happy. I doubt they have much incentive to "kill Windows", and they definitely won't do it just to pander to an anti-MS zealot such as yourself.

> Who has authority to do that?

crickets chirping

> Truth is, no one cares.

You will, if you have EU customers.

> GDPR is an overreach designed to shake down American mega-corps.

The GDPR is the result of mega-corps (American ones in particular) not giving two shits about how their users' personal data is handled. Cry all you want now that the milk's spilled, it won't change the fact that this legislation was not conjured in a vacuum, but as a response to the way corporations behave when not obliged to care about personally identifiable information.

> Docker has no money so the EU isn't going to do anything to them.

A formal reprimand might suffice. Contrary to the naive american view I see here on HN, EU data regulators don't immediately try to shut you down by barging into your company's office with a SWAT team.

> I'm sure they're inundated with complaints from unsuccessful companies trying to shoot down their biggest competitors already.

How sure? 100%? 50%? Less? What are you basing your assertion on?

> Adding one more to the pile is only going to waste your time and that of EU regulators.

There's a characteristic nearly all government departments share: they may be slow, but they're steamrollers. They'll get to you eventually.

Isn't that just a side effect of frontend devs being able to use their existing JS knowledge serverside?

I'd expect the reverse to happen as well to some degree since currently backend devs are somewhat "forced" to take on JS if they want to do any frontend work. Or does that seem less likely to you?

Wonder what its effect on the popularity of Javascript will be, given that it can be used as a compilation target for pretty much any language (?).

Maybe...but it sounds like the "warnings" that grape juice manufacturers placed on their products during Prohibition, to prevent turning them into wine accidentally by letting them ferment.

> We could've spent 10% of what we spent on GDPR on education about tracking and the result (if the goal was to reduce tracking) would be much better. How do you know it would be much better?

How would you implement this exactly? The GDPR effectively has global reach as it doesn't apply only to EU citizens, and it's easier to implement one compliant system than have a separate one for non-EU data subjects.

What sort of timeframe and expenditure are we looking at for worldwide education surrounding tracking on the web and privacy? How do you plan to keep people up-to-date with the latest techniques Ad network deploy to defeat past best-practices?

In your example, what sort of recourse would exist for people who are currently privacy-minded, but not savvy enough to know someone's collecting more data than they'd actually have consented to (in your analogy, the equivalent of the Ad network sticking its fingers in people's wallets, taking what they're not entitled to)?

> Imagine that you're providing a service in exchange for money. Would it be fair for someone to demand money back after they consumed the service?

Note I said delete or anonymise. The point is that the information shouldn't be personally identifiable once the person has asked to be forgotten (within reason of course - you still have to hold as much info as the law mandates whether that person likes it or not).

You're welcome to keep the anonymised data and do whatever ML or other analytics with it.

> If you do not wish someone to have your data, don't sell it to them.

There are plenty of services that gather far more information about you against your will than ordinary folk imagine, IIRC Google and Facebook's tracking of your activity via their ad networks even when you're not visiting pages on their domain. This isn't acceptable, and lots of ordinary people aren't savvy enough to use adblockers or script blockers, yet they never consented to that type of data collection.

The GDPR at least gives them some say in what happens to the data that was collected about them.

Or they could just use the dollar, or even the currency from one of their close neighbours that hasn't gone belly up.

Transaction fees for bitcoin rose to what, 50-ish USD during the December madness? (when the network was saturated).

Just imagine the network congestion if all of Venezuella's business start using bitcoin to settle their transactions, even if they're batched into large amounts. No way 7 tx/s is enough.

Agree with you for the most part, but the GDPR extends much further than that.

Even if you've accepted the default consent popup from a website, you can also revoke that consent in the future and request you be forgotten (either your data deleted or completely anonymised). Then there's the obligation of data breaches to be reported quickly, as well as being able to claim damages that result from said breaches.

That last bit will also incentivise companies to be more careful about how much data they can collect, and whether they'll even want to store it longer than absolutely necessary.

Then prepare to be shocked

> I am 100% sure that font is Roboto

Okay this is just ridiculous. Have you tried searching Google for the string that you think is forged?

Try searching for the following, taken from the "fake" portion of the email: "based on your high usage it appears you are eligible for volume pricing discounts, enterprise-grade customer support, and/or offline contracts"

The very first hit is one of Google's pricing pages for their Maps platform:

https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/user-guide/pricing-ch...

Which says (highlight added by me):

    When do I need an Enterprise account?

    Businesses with high-volume usage who are looking for volume pricing discounts,
    **enterprise-grade** customer support, and/or offline contracts should contact
    us about setting up an Enterprise account.

They've obviously reused text between this page and their client update emails. Now please explain how this fits into your conspiracy theory.

EDIT:

The font used on Google's pricing page is Roboto, which means that the discrepancy is Google's fault as someone obviously did a bad copy/paste job when preparing emails for clients.

If nothing else, you have a good eye for fonts I guess.

Care to retract your accusation now?

> DOM manipulation, of course. But not everybody knows about it. So most people default to Photoshop, which is what these people did.

They're web developers, and you're suggesting they don't know how to manipulate the DOM?

> This email is FORGED, and I'd like to know why.

The fact you're using a throwaway account to make the accusation suggests you're not too sure yourself, and you know your "evidence" is beyond flimsy.

Compression artifact maybe?

Doesn't seem likely they'd risk their reputation by faking correspondence with Google and publishing it in the open.

In the very same wikipedia article you linked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis#Management

Please read it. And also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensively_drug-resistant_tub...

Lastly, TB is caused by a bacteria, not a virus. Again, it's right there in the wikipedia page you linked.

Could you please answer the question then? How do you go about treating an antibiotic resistant TB infection you've acquired?

Replace gangrene with whatever bacterial infection you want.

You've been infected with an antibiotic resistant strain - of tuberculosis for example. Please explain how you'll resolve the situation.

Note that I'm not arguing lifestyle changes aren't important; I agree with parts of your other comments on that issue. I just don't understand why you think that pursuing other research avenues into defeating antibiotic resistant bacteria, that can cause a resurgence in plagues that were previously under control, is a bad or unimportant thing.

I'd very much like to not go back to the days when people died from Consumption left and right.

For which many bacteria are already becoming resistant to, thanks to overuse or misuse.

Please explain how you'll handle infection by a resistant strain.